Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

"Can Donald Trump run for a 3rd term?" No. "What if he..." Still no. "How about..." STFU, No. "Then why are we talking about it!?" Because evil MAGA apparatchiks need you to fear that he will. I explain in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This seems like confirmation

So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

The nerds know what's up. It's the high-end bastions of liberal arts and social sciences that are wheedling and caving. Go figure.

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

This weekend is a good time to catch up on my stories about Trump’s imminent sale and likely destruction of a 1940 government building that one expert calls “the Sistine Chapel of New Deal art.” Part one: newrepublic.com/article/2010... Part two: newrepublic.com/article/2012...

Jane Goodall is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever read about or watched in her many documentaries. Her work made it much harder for us to ignore the other creatures on our planet.

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

from McSweeney's: If a Democrat calls Republicans “fascists,” he basically just signed their death warrants. If a Republican calls Democrats “Marxists,” or “the enemy from within,” or “vermin,” or “human scum,” he’s just trying to fire up the crowd. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

@michaelharriot.bsky.social wrote this two years before George Floyd was murdered on camera by police. It seems even more appropriate now. www.theroot.com/civility-is-...

I recommend everyone watches this

Also define doxxed? Their names made public? Like the names of every police officer, teacher, judge, govt employee?

You would do well to disseminate this at least as much as the Trump tweet. He attacked her to shut up any talk of accountability for his policies. So rather than gaping at his tweet, talk about accountability.

Amazing that Trump is this incompetent but Biden's cognition is more important to the political press.

The headlines ought to read: Unidentified masked thugs kidnap NYC comptroller Brad Lander

🎯 #NeverForgetJanuary6th

Despite all their contradictions and lies, MAGA has been remarkably consistent in one area: their hatred for America. They hate the people, hate the places, hate the very idea of it. MAGA changes positions on a whim all the time, but they will never, even by accident, make Americans' lives better.

if it takes years, has to be consequences for all these people, and even more for those who gave the orders.

SCOTUS Can Let the President Break the Law; They Can’t Change It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/scotu...

1986 — moving America towards a fascist theocracy was in the works. Should’ve listened more to Frank Zappa 👇🏼

Severance is my favourite program on Apple TV+, and one of my favourite series ever. Look at any aspect of production; story, acting, sets - they are all terrific. This small prop is but one example. make3.co/work/woemeter h/t to daringfireball.net for the link.

Today is the 5 year anniversary to when I slowly started losing my mind during the pandemic and began dressing up as works of art. As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky? This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862

This reminded me of Ford diss'ing NYC back in '75, so I did a little playing in Photoshop:

Biden: I’m going to end one our longest dumbest wars, it may be a little chaotic Media: OMG WORST SCANDAL, EVER A DISASTER!!! Trump: I’m going to destroy multiple agencies, disappear wrong thinkers and weaponize the govt against my political enemies Media: *shrug*

Sad to learn that Kevin Drum died on Friday. I've been reading his work for almost 10 years, always interested in his view of events. jabberwocking.com/health-updat...

You can to declare you can excused from the collective. It feels good, I know. but a republic is a specific form of government in which elections do what they do. And like it or not, Trump and Vance spoke and acted for ALL of us yesterday. That's what this "we" shit is. As in "We the People...."

The central fact about Zelenskyy is this: He is very good at killing fascists. That is why Trump and Vance despise him. They recognise the ideological enemy when they see him iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...

@iandunt.bsky.social Interesting reading about one of the bigger errors of the Starmer government. daringfireball.net/2025/02/appl...

Some say Donald Trump is playing 5 dimensional chess. Others say...

I’m so tired of them. I’m tired of their lies. I’m tired of their disgusting amorality. I’m tired of their faces, their voices, their smirks. I’m tired of their inability to say — let alone do — even one thing remotely kind or humble or appropriate, ever. So tired.

if you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery

@goldietaylor.bsky.social On a much brighter note: x.com/LewisHamilto...

@joshtpm.bsky.social Someone made a Musk variant of your old wraithing alphabet: timesnewdumbass.co

For the life of me I cannot understand how anyone that listens to Trump or Jordan Peterson or Robert Kennedy Jr can take them seriously. Or MAGA types criticizing athletes/actors/musicians speaking out against the right wing, yet expect their own voice to be praised.

As English journalist Ian Dunt wrote: They saw what he was. They saw what he did. And they voted for him anyway. iandunt.substack.com/p/cruelty-ha...